Enhanced Feeds liven up your feed

Blogs have a powerful feature called in RSS feeds that enables people to read and keep track of their favourite blogs easily in aggregators like Bloglines and Google Reader. RSS readers of your blog never have to wonder if it has been updated because their news reader will tell them within an hour or two whenever you make a post.

Up until now your feed has been fairly basic. All you got in most aggregators was the post title and the content. Simple to navigate and read, but it left you with so many questions. How do I add this post to del.icio.us? How do I Digg it and has it been Dugg already? I wonder how many comments have been left?

Wonder no longer. Today, your WordPress.com feed can be supercharged with the following fine feed widgets:

Comment Count

Categories

Tags

“Add to Del.icio.us” link

“Digg it!” link

“Stumble it!” link

Comment Count is turned on by default but you can switch all the features on or off as you please. This is what your blog will look like in a news reader with everything turned on.

To activate these goodies, go into the “Reading Options” page (Options->Reading) of your blog and scroll down. You’ll see the following checkboxes where they can be switched on or off.

If you have any ideas for other feed bling we could add, let us know in the comments.

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1 more thing, I checked and yes changing your feed options with WP will duplicate links on your feedburner feed. I had # of comments selected with Feedburner, and WP’s # of comments showed up as well. It is a cinch to deselect the Feedburner options which clash with WP however.

Is it possible to provide a seperate RSS syndication just for user comments?

I have observed that some of my readers have posted very good comments on some post(better then the post itself), it would be very nice to see the views of such people being available to more web audience..

OK, if you can’t use a less hideous font and colour could you please insert a CSS class in the images so I can hide them? Or if you absolutely can’t, make the .pngs transparent? There are some feeds I’m subscribed to through livejournal, and I don’t care for having my friends’ page defaced.

That is just awesome. I have been waiting impatiently for such a thing on wordpress.com.
I appreciate it. But it will be also good, if Addthis or share this can be added in each post somehow. That builds more interaction with the reader.
Thanks anyways…

OK, if you can’t use a less hideous font and colour could you please insert a CSS class in the images so I can hide them? Or if you absolutely can’t, make the .pngs transparent? There are some feeds I’m subscribed to through livejournal, and I don’t care for having my friends’ page defaced.

The biggest bling that you could add to the feed would be feed stats. For blogs that have short content many people *only* read the feed. Right now we have no way of knowing how many of those there are.

That is just awesome. I have been waiting impatiently for such a thing on wordpress.com.
I appreciate it. But it will be also good, if Addthis or share this can be added in each post somehow. That builds more interaction with the reader.
Thanks anyways…